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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan was arrested onWednesday after a pedestrian told police that her car struckhim as the "Mean Girls" actress was driving into a hotel in NewYork, New York City police said. Lohan's vehicle clipped a34-year-old man in an alley, around 2:30 a.m., police toldReuters, and the man later went to a nearby hospital saying hehad an injured knee.

Dave Matthews Band's "Away From the World" debuts at No. 1

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. rock group Dave MatthewsBand's new album, "Away From the World," landed in the top spoton the Billboard 200 on Wednesday - the band's sixth straightNo. 1-debuting studio album. But the album's 266,000 salesfigure was the band's smallest album launch since 1996's"Crash," which sold 254,000 copies in its first week, accordingto Nielsen SoundScan figures.

Disney film to show how "Mary Poppins" flew from book toscreen

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The tale of how the world's mostbeloved nanny, Mary Poppins, flew from the pages of a popularbook onto the big screen is the subject of a new film starringTom Hanks and Emma Thompson, Disney said on Wednesday. The filmcalled "Saving Mr. Banks" began production on Wednesday. Ittells of Walt Disney's 20-year pursuit of the film rights toauthor P.L. Travers' novel "Mary Poppins," Walt Disney Co's movie studio said in a statement.

In Jonathan Demme's new film, there's hope after Katrina

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - During the months after HurricaneKatrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, pastor Joseph Campionin the city's Lower Ninth Ward helped hundreds of people wipeaway tears. Parishioner Carolyn Parker wasn't one of them.Parker, who was one of thousands who lost nearly everything inthe disastrous post-Katrina flood, is the subject of a newdocumentary by Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme ina compelling portrait of how people recover from catastrophicevents. It first airs Thursday on PBS.

UK singer Robbie Williams becomes a father

LONDON (Reuters) - British pop star Robbie Williams hasbecome a father for the first time, announcing the arrival of ababy girl - Theodora Rose, "affectionately known as Teddy". The38-year-old singer said his daughter was born on Tuesday,weighing 7 pounds 4 ounces.

Upsets, drama in store for TV's big Emmy night

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A night of upsets could be on themenu at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, with thecountesses and kitchen maids of Britain's "Downton Abbey"bidding to end the reign of television's "Mad Men," whilepost-9/11 psychological thriller "Homeland" lurks close by.With a tight race for the best drama series top prize and agreat year for comedy actresses, the television industry'sbiggest night could pack as much drama this year as the plottwists and turns dreamed up by TV writers on screen.

Danish film spotlights piracy off East Africa

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A new Danish film made on ashoestring budget with a partly amateur cast confronts theglobal scourge of piracy on the high seas through apsychological drama about negotiations to free a vessel andcrew seized by Somali marauders. "A Hijacking" ("Kapringen" inDanish), directed by Tobias Lindholm, opens at cinemas inDenmark on Thursday after its world premiere in Venice at thebeginning of this month and subsequent showings at the TorontoInternational Film Festival.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Music publisher Round Hill Music isexpected to announce a deal to acquire the rights to a catalogof 150 songs, including hits by Katy Perry, Flo Rida, BrunoMars and Cee Lo Green from Arthouse Entertainment LLC, a personclose to the situation said. This source said a deal could beannounced as soon as Wednesday morning, but declined to commenton its terms.

Streisand, Minnelli, Franklin sing for Marvin Hamlisch

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three of America's leading stageperformers - Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and ArethaFranklin - paid tribute to Marvin Hamlisch on Tuesday, honoringthe late composer for his contributions to Broadway and movies,as well as their personal lives. The invitation-only tributefor the composer of numerous hit records, movies and musicalssuch as "A Chorus Line" was held at the New York's JuilliardSchool for the Arts where Hamlisch studied as a boy after threeyears earlier displaying at the age of 4 a gift for mimickingmusic.

UK royal couple win French injunction on Kate toplessphotos

PARIS (Reuters) - A French court on Tuesday banned a gossipmagazine from further publishing topless photographs of thewife of Britain's Prince William, the former Kate Middleton,and ordered it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple.The injunction granted to the Duke and the Duchess ofCambridge, as the couple are formally known, also preventsFrance's Closer magazine from selling the pictures to othermedia.